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...Tewes and Fuerza Latina will co-sponsor the screening of “Raising Victor Vargas,” Peter Sollet’s 2002 independent feature that debuted, to critical acclaim, on the independent film festival circuit...
Furthermore, in its grants process the Harvard Foundation increases funding by 20 percent for organizations that co-sponsor their events with different ethnic organizations in hopes of bringing together both similar and different people. For instance, last semester the Foundation provided funding for “Stand up for Peace,” a night of comedy featuring an Arab comedian and Jewish comedian, which had a joint sponsorship from the Society of Arab Students and Harvard Students for Israel. In addition to supporting ethnic groups on campus, the Foundation hosts its own events that encourage the betterment of intercultural...
...brand. The last thing Toyota needs is a revival of protectionist consumer sentiment. Recent ads tout the number of U.S. jobs Toyota has created. The company also became the first foreign automaker to crack NASCAR, entering the Tundra last year in the Craftsman Truck Series, and as a NASCAR sponsor Toyota is beginning to get notice from fans. "Being a Chevy man all my life, I'm starting to look at the Toyotas coming out," said Jared Branan, 24, of Kissimmee, Fla., attending a race in Daytona Beach last January. "They're starting to get with the program...
...that might have shut down Internet gambling--and jeopardized the livelihoods of some of Abramoff's biggest clients. Two of them--a Choctaw Indian tribe and the Internet gambling company eLottery Inc.--each wrote a check for $25,000 on May 25, 2000, the day DeLay departed, to the sponsor of the trip, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative nonprofit foundation on whose board Abramoff sat. Those checks would cover most of the cost of the $70,000 junket. Sponsorship by the center made the trip allowable under House ethics rules, which prohibit lobbyists from paying...
...Africa President Ken Kragen has already lined up Tina Turner, Bill Cosby, Pete Rose, Kenny Rogers and Lionel Richie to lend support, and Coca-Cola has signed on as the first sponsor. Kragen hopes to raise some $50 million; in the first days after it was announced, "Hands" raked in some $365,000 in $10 to $35 telephone pledges from enthusiasts around the country who called...